Samsung Galaxy Alpha shows off metal frame (pictures)

Samsung has built a metal mobile at last. Check out these official pictures of the Galaxy Alpha, which also sports a 4.7-inch display.

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Samsung has heeded our calls for a metal Galaxy smartphone. We've got the first official images here, so click through to take a look, and learn about the Alpha's key specs. The Alpha will go on sale in September in the UK, with availability in other countries and prices yet to be confirmed.

The Alpha has 32GB of internal memory and 2GB of RAM -- but here's another bit of bad news: there's no microSD card slot. That's unusual for Samsung, and could annoy those who regularly transfer files to and from their phones.

The camera records video in a 4K resolution at 30 frames per second. That means your footage will have plenty of pixels, though we'll need to do some hands-on testing before we can vouch for the quality of the video it captures.